Across the world, other organizations formed to manage magickal phenomena. Some offer protection, others seek profit, and still others seek the total eradication of magick. Each group employs different tactics according to their unique ethos. For the purposes of the Quickstart Guide, here are two of the organizations you might encounter.

Exoteric Order of New Sciences (EONS)

Founded by a small faction of scientists and occultists, this insidious cohort believes in the very public incorporation of science with magick.

Values: The first true occult power of this century, EONS adheres to a daring set of tenets: the old societies have failed mankind, and it’s time for bold action. Their opportunistic viewpoints have resulted in a rivalry between EONS and Candela Obscura.

Atmosphere: Laboratories with beakers and brass, industrial spaces, upscale businesses, dense files, hastily scrawled notes, dangerous experimentation, electricity, alchemical symbology.

Key Assets

• The Devil’s Well: Located under the Glass Sea, this was an attempt by EONs to create a vault styled after the Fourth Pharos.
• Galvanica Engineering Works: Located in the Steel, this laboratory is the home to many of EONS’s top minds and their experimental works.
• Adjuvant: An experimental antidote for bleed, or rather, an attempt to stop the “negative human reaction to the natural phenomena of bleed.”

Notable Figures

• Elvira Dryden (she/her): The elder and more business-minded of the twins that founded EONS.
• Edric Dryden (he/they): Elvira’s twin brother, who rarely leaves his laboratory. He is the engine that brings Elvira’s dark ideas to life.
• Violet Boucher (she/her): A brilliant scientist who recently joined EONS, Violet is eager to prove herself through extreme means.
• Avery Choi (they/them): A clever and secretive figure, Avery has been known to provide Candela Obscura with classified information from the EONS labs.

Office of Unexplained Phenomena (OUP)

An underfunded and undervalued division of the Periphery. Omnipresent but invisible to normal society, the Office of Unexplained Phenomena specializes in the discovery, analysis, and suppression of magickal phenomena.

Values: The OUP’s primary goal is to keep knowledge of magickal abnormalities from the public, and they will go to great lengths to do so. They may collaborate with Candela Obscura, but their bureaucracy is likely to do more harm than good.

Atmosphere: Government buildings, sterile offices, redacted files, confidentiality, red tape, uniforms, manipulated news.

Key Assets

• The Rediker Room: Founded in 1883, this location houses a number of magickal phenomena unknown to the public.
• The Sathe Device: Named for the person that created it, this device can be used to detect bleed on an object, place, or person.
• Grayslate Sanatorium: The asylum located in the Sidle. It’s often used to hide away civilians and agents who were subjected to too much bleed. The OUP frequently uses the slang “they’re going gray” in reference to this facility and the effects of bleed.

Notable Figures

• Baxter White (he/him): The long-time head of the OUP. He has a soft voice, a stern tone, and never suffers fools.
• Marcos Vega (they/them): The very long-time head secretary of the OUP. There is no secret they don’t know and no string they cannot pull.
• Dr. Ida Ashraf (she/her): A physician at Grayslate Sanitorium. She seems to possess minor magickal ability and has very little loyalty to the OUP.
• Farrah Naftali (she/her): A close contact of Candela Obscura. She frequently goes against the orders of her superiors to collaborate with circle members “for the greater good.”